Pentagon doctors have argued that 7-year-olds can decide to take anti-pubertal drugs or injections of sex hormones.
Health care providers associated with the Department of Defense (DoD) have claimed to support a so-called “gender-affirmation” model of caring for children with gender dysphoria. fox news beginning report.
Health care providers advocated for “gender-affirming health care, such as puberty suppression and hormone affirmation,” in the March issue of the American Journal of Public Health, stating, “Young people … have an inherent ability and right to consent to sexual activity. have,” he continues to insist. Gender-affirming therapy. “
The authors — David A. Klein, Thomas Baxter, Noelle S. Larson, and clinical psychologist Natasha A. Schvey, PhD — called on the military to train providers in the so-called “gender-affirming” model of care. . However, they acknowledged that his 53% of physicians associated with the military through the Department of Defense medical system have said they refuse to offer hormones.
Dr. Larson, a pediatric endocrinologist, Klein Schvey and Baxter work at the Travis Air Force Base in California.
The authors also argued that it was unethical for providers to wait for patients to come out of gender dysphoria.
Some well-intentioned military-affiliated clinicians believe that ‘vigilant wait’ approaches have a different risk profile than gender-affirming approaches (which enable investigation of gender identity) and that ‘conversion therapy’ is unethical and harmful. may not be aware that and generally illegal.
The Department of Defense said: When asked, “The Department of Defense trains health care providers in line with current science and best medical evidence.” fox news Whether it is intended to provide training that supports a “gender-affirming” model of care.
Dr. Stanley Goldfarb of Do No Harm, an organization dedicated to opposing racial and gender ideologies in medicine, disagreed with the claims made in the paper. “The idea that a seven-year-old can make such decisions is laughable,” he said.
“The existence of a large ‘demigrant’ cohort, perhaps as high as 25%, suggests the folly of assuming that childhood decisions are sound,” he said.
Also, the provider said:
Clinicians …withhold treatment for acting in accordance with state law or provide ethical and evidence-based treatment while facing legal or financial persecution, dishonorable military service, or allegations of child abuse You may be forced to choose whether to
“The DHA must also commit to protecting clinicians and families who provide gender-affirming care to minors in accordance with DHA’s legal guidance from prosecution under state law or policies that criminalize this care. There is,” said the doctor.
The provider also argued that the Pentagon should “leveraging its robust and intact system” to “sponsored research” on “military achievements related to access to timely gender-affirming care.”
Meanwhile, the Department of Defense told Fox News, “The Department of Defense provides federally approved care at military medical facilities in accordance with applicable law.”
Goldfarb, who denounced the article as “propaganda,” said: “Just because a child says he or she understands the effects of gender reassignment doesn’t mean they can imagine future regrets.”
He also added:
These doctors surveyed the literature and found evidence that we are in puberty, why Finland, Norway, Denmark and the UK chose to severely limit the use of puberty blockers and hormones that change sex characteristics. We have to face the reality that there are very few. Don’t hurt the children we help anymore.
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